[thelist] PGP encrypt then decrypt HTML email?

Warden, Matt mwarden at mattwarden.com
Mon Jul 23 21:24:09 CDT 2001


On Jul 23, Joe Crawford had something to say about Re: [thelist] PGP...

>Hrm. This is a good question. I know that PGP runs as a kind of plug-in
>inside the mail client. I would think that when you invoke PGP, it is
>responsible for the decryption, and the display. If that is the case you
>would rely on PGP itself to be able to render html. I don't think it
>hands the display back to the mail client.
>
>I hope I'm wrong about that though.

Actually, joe, I think you're spot on. The only time I don't view emails
in Outlook as Courier New 10pt is when i open a message with PGP, in which
case it looks like an arial-type font. I can't control this from Outlook
or the PGP email options.

Truthfully, to me it makes sense that PGP wouldn't support HTML email.



You might be out of luck. But, I'd search 





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